Picked this one up on Saturday with the keen eye of TikiGav assisting in finding it.....for the grand sum of $10!! Stands about 4 foot tall and came from Fiji 27 years ago wrapped in a damp towel to stop it cracking.

It's good to see that someone else checks the garage shelves at estate sales. I've found old cans of tiki-torch fuel with great graphics on them as well - but nothing to match your teak oil can. That's beautiful!

I love that the Tiki Gardens 'Tikis' are actually those Haida Totem Pole thingys we were talking about a while back as being 'not tiki'. Well, looks like the Tiki Garden peeps don't care too much, heheh!

You can still see the sticker on the back where it says it is from British Columbia - that hotbed of tikiness, hee hee!

On 2004-05-25 11:35, tikifish wrote:You can still see the sticker on the back where it says it is from British Columbia - that hotbed of tikiness, hee hee!

Man, maybe I should buy up all the totems and start touting them on e-bay as "Genuine Vintage Tiki"

It really surprises me that Tiki Gardens sold these items! I guess they were inexpensive, colourful, and to the un-sophisticated savage look just like them there Hawaiian doo-dads.
_________________Great Minds Drink Alike

I just saw a tonne of those Haida totem pole mugs and salt shakers this weekend. Part of me wishes they were tiki...and now the folks at Tiki Gardens say they are!

Still a very cool find (with the stickers) and proof positive that even those in the Tiki-Know find the similarities between Polynesian and Haida (even this bastardized version) quite startling.
_________________